This paper presents the results of an empirical study suggesting that, while laughter is a very good indicator of amusement, the kind of laughter (unvoiced laughter vs.voiced laug...
Well tuned Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) has been shown to generally be more effective than vocabulary-independent techniques for ranked retrieval of spo...
This paper describes the experience of QAST 2009, the third time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. Four ...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Olivier Ga...
Text-based search using video speech transcripts is a popular approach for granular video retrieval at the shot or story level. However, misalignment of speech and visual tracks, ...
Popular content in video sharing web sites (e.g., YouTube) is usually duplicated. Most scholars define near-duplicate video clips (NDVC) based on non-semantic features (e.g., di...
Mauro Cherubini, Rodrigo de Oliveira, Nuria Oliver